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Mar 31, 2021
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Mar 31, 2021
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This is the full 3-28-2021 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, as we await the results of the union election at the Amazon.com warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, we’ll hear about global union efforts to confront this international logistics giant. Then we will hear from parents of students in the Chicago public schools who are fed up with what they see is a lack of parent voice in the school system in this city, especially during this...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, Amazon, Raise Your Hand, schools, Chicago Public School...
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Mar 17, 2021
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Mar 17, 2021
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This is the full 3-14-2021 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, the PRO Act (the “Protecting the Right to Organize Act”) passes in the house and is headed to the Senate. We hear about what's in the PRO Act from Labor Radio/Podcast Network partner Labor Live at 5 . In the second half Sara Nelson, International President of the Association of Flight Attendants and author, activist, and filmmaker Naomi Klein talk about the grassroots...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, PRO Act, Protecting the Right to Organize Act, labor law,...
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Mar 5, 2021
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Mar 5, 2021
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This is the full 2-28-2021 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, we remember Karen Lewis, former President of the Chicago Teachers Union, with audio from the Labor Beat TV and the Labor Express Radio archives. Karen passed away Feb. 7th. She leaves a tremendous legacy of a union transformed from one that had made concessions in contract after contract to union that won two historic strikes, and became a model for other unions around the...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, Teachers, CTU, Chicago Teachers Union, schools, Chicago...
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Feb 16, 2021
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Feb 16, 2021
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This is the full 2-14-2021 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, we celebrate an agreement between the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and Chicago Public Schools on a plan for an at least safer return to schools than what CPS was originally demanding. It is a victory for the union who had fought hard to ensure the safety of school personnel and students alike during this pandemic. We also mourn the passing of Karen Lewis, President Emerita of the...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, Teachers, CTU, Chicago Teachers Union, schools, Chicago...
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Feb 2, 2021
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Feb 2, 2021
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This is the full 1-31-2021 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, the Chicago Teachers Union makes their demand crystal clear - no return to in-school classes without vaccinations. And they receive what they see as a statement of support from none other than President Biden himself, while CPS continues to lock out teachers who have resisted a return to school buildings. NOTE THIS IS A QUICKLY EVOLVING SITUATION. SEE LABOREXPRESS.ORG FOR...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, Teachers, CTU, Chicago Teachers Union, schools, Chicago...
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Jan 21, 2021
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Jan 21, 2021
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This is the full 1-17-2021 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, nurse Dennis Kosuth, who works in both hospitals and public schools, a member of both National Nurses United (NNU) and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), discusses Chicago’s teachers and nurses fighting back against unsafe conditions in their workplaces during the pandemic, especially the resistance of teachers to a return to in-classroom teaching as the infection rate in the city...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, Nurses, Teachers, NNU, CTU, National Nurses United,...
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Dec 30, 2020
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Dec 30, 2020
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This is the full 12-27-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, it's our holiday episode. Did you buy the game Monopoly as a gift this year? Maybe you played it with friends or family? What does this game teach children and what was it really meant to teach? We explore those last two questions on this episode. And, we mark the 65th anniversary of the AFL-CIO merger. Both segments courtesy of our friends at Labor History Today …...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, Monopoly, AFL-CIO, AFL, CIO, Walter Reuther, George Meany
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Dec 19, 2020
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Dec 19, 2020
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This is the full 12-13-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, Democratic Socialist of America (DSA) host their own Medicare4All campaign relaunch, shortly after NNU’s kickoff. The relaunch event includes Chicago nurse Dennis Kosuth, NNU and CTU member. Then the CTU hosts a discussion of rising teacher union militancy nationwide. And UE releases a booklet entitled “Them and Us Unionism”. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, nurses, COVID-19, National Nurses United, Medicare4All,...
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Dec 1, 2020
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Dec 1, 2020
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This is the full 11-29-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight’s episode of Labor Express Radio, cuts in the Cook County hospital system and nurses on the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis fightback. An interview with Stroger Hospital nurse Elizabeth Lalasz, member of National Nurses United who works with COVID patients on the likely effects of the cuts to Black and Brown working-class communities on the Southside of Chicago and how nurses are organizing regardless to...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, nurses, COVID-19, Cook County Hospital System, National...
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Nov 17, 2020
11/20
Nov 17, 2020
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This is the full 11-15-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, responses to Trump’s election defeat from people celebrating the 2020 Presidential election’s outcome in the streets of Chicago and from highly respected racial justice and labor organizer Bill Fletcher Jr. Also on the program, updates on the fight of workers in the warehouses for Mars candies, members of Warehouse Workers for Justice (WWJ) for safe workplaces and against...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, Warehouse Workers for Justice, WWJ, Sandy Moreno, Jobs...
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Oct 27, 2020
10/20
Oct 27, 2020
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This is the full 10-25-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, unions fight for fair, progressive taxation on two coasts. Here in Chicago, the labor movement, especially the teachers, are working for a yes vote on the Fair Tax which would switch Illinois from a flat tax to a progressive graduated income tax. Meanwhile, the labor movement in California is putting its resources behind passage of Prop 15, Schools and Communities First, which...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, SEIU, IFT, Illinois Federation of Teachers, CFL, Chicago...
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Sep 30, 2020
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Sep 30, 2020
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This is the full 9-27-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, victory in the strike of SEIU Local 73 members at UIC Hospital! The Peoples Academy defeats the ICE Academy- an insidious attempt to recruit regular citizens to become part of the deportation machine. And LVEJO and Warehouse Workers for Justice form a groundbreaking partnership uniting the interests of low wage workers and environmental justice activists. Labor Express Radio is...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, SEIU Local 73, immigrants, ICE, migrants, Warehouse...
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Sep 14, 2020
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Sep 14, 2020
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This is the full 9-13-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, nurses at UIC hospital go on strike! Members of INA (Illinois Nurses Association) launched a week-long strike on Saturday at UIC Hospital over staffing ratios and safe working conditions, especially in the context of the COVID-19 crisis (they were joined by SEIU Local 73 on Monday). Teamsters Local 743 organized a car caravan and rally last Tuesday from Provident Hospital in the...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, INA, Illinois Nurses Association, Teamsters, Teamsters...
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Sep 1, 2020
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Sep 1, 2020
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This is the full 8-30-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, postal workers speak out against attacks on the postal system by the Trump administration. This is not just an election issue, this is a privatization issue and an attack on unions. And in the second half of the program, Erek Slater fights a political firing by the Chicago Transit Authority for the second time in his 14 years as a Chicago bus driver. The CTA fired Erek once...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, CTA, Chicago Transit Authority, ATU, Amalgamated Transit...
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Aug 11, 2020
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Aug 11, 2020
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This is the full 8-9-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, we bring you audio excerpts from one of the Chicago Teachers Union’s recent Car Caravan protests demanding that Chicago Public Schools start the 2020 school year fully remote. The CTU has claimed another victory at Mayor Lightfoot has backed down and agreed to a fully remote start to the school year. Also in the program, audio excerpts from Haymarket Books recent webinar “Racism...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, Chicago Teachers Union, CTU, COVID-19, Coronavirus,...
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Jul 28, 2020
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Jul 28, 2020
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This is the full 7-26-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, Jorge Mujica of Arise Chicago workers center talks about the new coalition called Illinois Unidos, formed to address the health care problems of the Latinx community associated with COVID-19, especially in the workplace. Also in the episode, Black Youth Project 100 and Black Lives Matter activists demand a CBA for displaced Southeast siders because of the Obama Presidential Library....
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, Jorge Mujica, Arise Chicago, Illinois Unidos, Latinos,...
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Jul 14, 2020
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Jul 14, 2020
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This is the full 7-12-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio we look at the impact of COVID-19 on workers in the meatpacking industry and the relationship between unions, Black Lives Matter and the police. But we are doing it in a unique way because this episode of Labor Express Radio is also a coast to coast tour of labor radio programs in celebration of our new membership in the Labor Radio/Podcast Network. The Network offers us wonderful...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, meatpacking, COVID-19, Black Lives Matter, police, law...
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Jun 30, 2020
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Jun 30, 2020
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This is the full 6-28-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, Universal Basic Income (UBI), great solution to help alleviate some of the worst problems of our economy whose time has come or distraction from real solutions to the crisis we face? And what is up with the proposed Chicago UBI pilot project? A conversation with Ameya Pawar, former Chicago alderman and Fellow at the Open Society Foundations & Economic Security Project. Pawar...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, CTU, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Teachers Union, Stacy...
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Jun 15, 2020
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Jun 15, 2020
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This is the full 6-14-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, REBELLION 2020!: Uprisings against racism and police brutality erupt across the nation in response to the murder of yet another Black man, George Floyd at the hands of yet another White cop, Derek Chauvin. But this time the African-American community and its allies have come out into the streets day after day, week after week, across the nation to say enough is enough. And this...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, ATU, Erek Slater, Amalgamated Transit Union, George Floyd,...
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Jun 9, 2020
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Jun 9, 2020
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Labor Express Radio Audio Extra: Chicago bus driver and elected ATU Local 241 board member denounces CTA management’s suspension for discussing solidarity with anti-police brutality protesters. CTA Bus Driver and elected executive board member of ATU Local 241 Erek Slater is fighting an unlawful suspension by CTA management who have repeatedly harassed him and his fellow bus drivers, denying them their 1st amendment rights as well as violating labor law and union contract protections. It...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, ATU, transit, public transit, Black Lives Matter,...
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Jun 1, 2020
06/20
Jun 1, 2020
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This is the full 5-31-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, we continue our ongoing examination of how unions and social movements are responding to the COVID-19 crisis and how the working class has responded to this crisis with an historic level of self-activity, militancy and creativity. Labor Journalist Mike Elk discusses his Payday Report website which hosts the COVID-19 Strike Wave Tracker and Interactive Map, which has so far...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, coronavirus, corona virus, Mike Elk, Payday Report,...
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May 18, 2020
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May 18, 2020
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This is the full 5-17-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, we highlight the work of Immigrant Solidarity DuPage and their Workers Center, especially their mutual aid efforts during the COVID-19 crisis. Cristobal Cavazos explains the history of the organization, the unique role of workers centers in the labor movement, and how they can organize to support workers during this crisis. He describes several recent victories including the two...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, coronavirus, corona virus, Cristobal Cavazos, Immigrant...
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May 6, 2020
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May 6, 2020
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This is the full 5-5-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, nurses at Stroger hospital, members of NNU, protest hospital administrators refusal to follow CDC guidelines, putting employees and patients at risk.* Moises Zavala and Eric Basir are back. This time Moises is talking about organizing in the cannabis industry and Eric is discussing his own battle with COVID-19 and with his employer, the CTA, over testing and sick leave. And Marianela...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, coronavirus, corona virus, ATU, Amalgamated Transit Union,...
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May 5, 2020
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May 5, 2020
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Labor Express Radio Audio Extra: Nurses at Stroger Hospital in Chicago hold rally protesting lack of PPE are joined by transit workers with the same complaint against the CTA. Nurses, members of National Nurses United (NNU), held a rally outside Stroger hospital in Chicago on April 27, 2020. They were protesting practices and policies of hospital management they say is preventing the nurses from accessing needed PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) and do not observe CDC guidelines for how...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, coronavirus, corona virus, ATU, Amalgamated Transit Union,...
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May 2, 2020
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May 2, 2020
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Labor Express Radio Interview: Marianela D'Aprile, member of the National Political Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), discusses the “Bernie bump”. Both in 2016 and now again, in 2020, the DSA has seen massive increases in membership. As a result, the DSA has become the closest thing to a mass socialist party we have seen in the United States in at least 70 years. At the same time, the organization has worked to avoid the limitations that come with...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, coronavirus, corona virus, Marianela D'Aprile, DSA,...
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Apr 29, 2020
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Apr 29, 2020
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Interview: This is the full, unedited interview with transit worker Eric Basir. Excerpts were aired on the 4/19/2020 and the 5/3/2020 episodes of Labor Express Radio. Eric Basir, train motorman and member of ATU Local 308 discusses Transit Workers Unite's petition calling for workers action in the face of COVID-19 and the job action of the CTA train cleaners who were forced to work in unsafe conditions. Eric himself, like far too many transit workers has contracted COVID-19 . He has not...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, coronavirus, corona virus, ATU, Amalgamated Transit Union,...
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Apr 22, 2020
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Apr 22, 2020
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This is the full 4-19-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, we continue to look at how the labor and other social movements are responding to the coronavirus crisis. The COVID-19 crisis is sparking worker's self-activity in a way not seen in generations. How are unions responding to this exciting development? Along with the theme of social solidarity in the time of physical distancing, this theme of the rise of grassroots working-class...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, coronavirus, corona virus, ATU, Amalgamated Transit Union,...
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Apr 17, 2020
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Apr 17, 2020
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Labor Express Radio Interview: Erek Slater of Transit Workers Unite and COVID-19 survivor on the “Safety First for Transit Workers Now” Petition and the impact of COVID-19 on transit workers. Jerry Mead-Lucero of Labor Express Radio interviews Erek Slater, bus driver, elected board member of ATU Local 241 and founding member of Transit Workers Unite, recovering himself from his own bout of COVID-19, about the devastating impact of the crisis on transit workers and the petition his...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, coronavirus, corona virus, transit, ATU, CTA, Chicago...
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Apr 16, 2020
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Apr 16, 2020
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Labor Express Radio Interview: Carl Rosen - General President of UE discusses how unions can and must organize a militant, bottom up worker fightback in response to the COVID-19 crisis. Jerry Mead-Lucero of Labor Express Radio interviews Carl Rosen, General President of United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE) about his recent article in In These Times magazine entitled “We Need the Labor Movement To Organize Worker Fightback in the Face of the COVID-19 Crisis”. ...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, coronavirus, corona virus, UE, Carl Rosen
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Apr 14, 2020
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Apr 14, 2020
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Jerry Mead-Lucero of Labor Express Radio interviews Moises Zavala, Director of Organizing for Local 881 United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) about the workers at Raymundo's Food Group in Bedford Park, Illinois, who walked out of their factory on Friday April 3rd and have remained out since. They took action after their bosses refused to address their safety concerns when two of their co-workers were diagnosed with COVID-19 but still were required to work for several days. The workers are...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, UFCW, United Food and Commercial Workers, grocery store...
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Apr 7, 2020
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Apr 7, 2020
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This is the full 4-5-2019 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, we continue to look at how the labor and other social movements are responding to the coronavirus crisis. First we will hear a report from the frontlines from nurse Dennis Kosuth, member of both NNU and CTU. In the second half of the program, Shannon Lederer, Director of Immigration Policy for the AFL-CIO and Riahl O'Malley, National Education Director for United for a Fair Economy...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, coronavirus, corona virus, NNU, National Nurses United,...
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Mar 24, 2020
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Mar 24, 2020
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This is the full 3-22-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Solidarity in the time of COVID-19 and "social distancing". This will be the theme explored on tonight's and future episodes of Labor Express Radio for the foreseeable future. It starts with tonight's program which features interviews with Chicago labor and immigrants rights activist Isaac Silver about the launching of the Facebook group, People's Coronavirus Response, which grew from a network of 2 to 10,000,...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, coronavirus, corona virus, Mexico, COVID19, COVID-19,...
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Mar 10, 2020
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Mar 10, 2020
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This is the full 3-8-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Erek Slater, Chicago public transit bus driver, elected shop steward and executive board member, of Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), Local 241, discusses both the recent elections for leadership of both ATU Local 241 and 308 and more importantly the contract negotiations for both locals with CTA management. Their contracts expired on Dec. 31st, 2019 and there has been little progress on a new contracts for either local so...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, ATU, Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 241, Local 308, Erek...
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Mar 1, 2020
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Mar 1, 2020
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Interview conducted by Labor Express reporter Michelle Burke at the “Transit Workers United 2020 Contract Speak Out” on February 25th, 2020. Michelle speaks with Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) El train motorman Eric Basir, member of Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 308 and CTA bus driver Erek Slater elected shop steward and executive board member of ATU Local 241 about the issues facing CTA employees as they enter their third month working under an expired contract. The previous...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, CTA, public transit
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Feb 24, 2020
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Feb 24, 2020
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This is the full 2-16-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight's Labor Express, we continue to remember the life and legacy of James Thindwa. First, James colleague from struggles at both Jobs with Justice (JWJ) and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and friend of 16 years, Carlos Fernandez offers his reflections on his years of working with James. In the second half of the program, another archive interview with James. This one from November of 2008 focusing on James'...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, James Thindwa, Carlos Fernandez, Barack Obama, elections,...
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Feb 9, 2020
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Feb 9, 2020
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This is the full 2-2-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On January 19th the Chicago labor and social justice movements lost a dedicated organizer, spokesperson and fighter. James Thindwa touched many lives in a host of vital social movements in Chicago and beyond. Whether as an African solidarity activist, the staff director of Citizen Action Coalition of Indiana and Ohio, the lead organizer in Chicago for Metro Seniors in Action, the ED of Chicago Jobs with Justice or his last...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, James Thindwa, Zimbabwe, Fight for 15, Black Lives Matter,...
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Jan 22, 2020
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Jan 22, 2020
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This is the full 1-19-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. John Ocampo, union organizer with UE (United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America) and member of the board of directors of the Alliance for Global Justice (AfGJ) and US Labor Against the War (USLAW) reports back from a recent labor delegation to Colombia. Colombia is currently experiencing the most significant wave of street protests the nation has seen in decades with Colombians fed up with the right wing...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, Colombia, Latin America, Human Rights, Neoliberalism, John...
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Jan 6, 2020
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Jan 6, 2020
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This is the full 1-5-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Oscar Chacón, Executive Director of Alianza Americas, discusses the current state of struggles for a just society across Latin America. It is a wide-ranging conversation about the current situation in Chile, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and the rest of the hemisphere and the history of how we have come to this point. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, Chile, Latin America, Human Rights, Neoliberalism, Oscar...
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Dec 24, 2019
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Dec 24, 2019
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This is the full 12-22-2019 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Chilean human rights activist Mario Venegas, victim of the Pinochet regime who has made Chicago his home for the last 30 years, talks about his recent visit to Chile and the ongoing uprising there challenging the very foundations of the neoliberal state. Plus, Angela Davis speaks at the refounding convention of the National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, Chile, Latin America, Human Rights, Neoliberalism, Mario...
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Dec 22, 2019
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Dec 22, 2019
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This is the full 12-8-2019 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. This episode includes a speech given by presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders to the Chicago Teachers Union as they voted to launch their historic 2019 strike. It also includes a interview with Shaun Richman, an In These Times contributing writer and the Program Director of the Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies at SUNY Empire State College analyzing Sanders labor platform conducted by Ken Nash of...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, schools, CTU, SEIU, strike, public education, Bernie...
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Dec 2, 2019
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Dec 2, 2019
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This is the full 11-24-2019 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. This episode features an interview with veteran Chicago Public Schools (CPS) teacher, Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) bargaining team member and one of CORE’s (Caucus of Rank and File Educators) founders, Kenzo Shibata about the recently concluded CTU/SEIU strike at CPS with an analysis of the strike, the resulting new 5 year contract and its implications for the future. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, schools, CTU, SEIU, strike, public education, teachers
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Nov 4, 2019
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Nov 4, 2019
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This is the full 11-3-2019 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. The Tale of Two Strikes: Labor Express examines the outcome of both the UAW strike at GM and the CTU strike at CPS, two potentially historic strikes with radically different results. Plus, strike victory at yet another Chicago charter school, Passages in the Edgewater Neighborhood. These strikes may well set the stage for union struggles in the public and private sectors for years to come. In the case of the CTU, the...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, schools, CTU, Chicago Teachers Union, UAW, United Auto...
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Oct 23, 2019
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Oct 23, 2019
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CTU President Jesse Sharkey and SEIU Local 73 Vice-President Jeffrey Howard speak to the press on day 6 of the CTU-SEIU 73 Chicago Public Schools strike. They discuss the letter from Mayor Lori Lightfoot that indicated that the City and the Board are not serious about making progress in contract negotiations. Jesse and Jeffrey discuss outstanding issues in negotiations like class sizes and prep time for teachers and PSRPs. The impromptu press conference followed the rally headlined by...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, schools, CTU, Chicago Teachers Union, SEIU Local 73, SEIU,...
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Oct 22, 2019
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Oct 22, 2019
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This is the full 10-20-2019 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and SEIU Local 73 on strike! We have been talking about it for months and now its finally here. The two unions and the Chicago board of ed could not reach agreement and so as of Thursday, October 17th, teachers, PSRPs and other support staff including everybody from custodians to security personnel, to lunch room attendants, to bus aides, etc. went out on strike - some over 30,000 workers...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, schools, CTU, Chicago Teachers Union, SEIU Local 73, SEIU,...
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Oct 20, 2019
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Oct 20, 2019
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Labor Express Radio reporter Michelle Burke interviews Von Steuben Metropolitan Science Center biology teacher David Kaplan about why he has joined 30,000 of his fellow coworkers on strike. David starts by discussing the state of contract negotiations as of Thursday Oct. 17th the start of the strike.
Topics: workers, union, justice, labor, Chicago, schools, education, CPS, public schools, public education,...
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Oct 19, 2019
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Oct 19, 2019
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Belding Elementary School special ed teacher Chris Hartwig, member of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and special education teacher assistant Marnita Hayes, member of SEIU Local 73, explain why they are on strike with over 30,000 of their fellow workers at Chicago public schools. The interviewer is Labor Express Radio reporter Marnie Goodfriend.
Topics: workers, union, justice, labor, Chicago, schools, education, CPS, public schools, public education,...
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Oct 13, 2019
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Oct 13, 2019
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This is the full 10-6-2019 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Interview with Scott Houldieson, Vice President of UAW Local 551 and long-time UAW reform activist about the ongoing UAW strike at GM. And in the second half of the program, the Chicago Teachers Union and SEIU Local 73 vote to strike by huge margins of their membership. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs radio program. News for working people, by working people. Labor...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, schools, CTU, Chicago Teachers Union, UAW, United Auto...
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Oct 6, 2019
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Oct 6, 2019
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This is the full 9-22-2019 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. STRIKE! Nurses strike in Chicago, auto workers strike across the country and students strike for climate justice around the globe, as Chicago teachers get closer to a possible strike of their own. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs radio program. News for working people, by working people. Labor Express Radio airs every Sunday at 8:00 PM on WLPN in Chicago, 105.5 FM. For...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, schools, CTU, Chicago Teachers Union, nurses, NNU,...
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Oct 4, 2019
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Oct 4, 2019
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In this interview with Scott Houldieson, Vice President of UAW Local 551*, 30 year production worker at the Ford assembly plant on the far Southside of Chicago and long-time union reform activist, Scott talks about the importance of the UAW strike at GM and its outcome to the fate of the industrial working class in the United States. In particular, we discuss issues like multi-tier wage and benefit structures that were implemented in the auto plants during the Great Recession and which have...
Topics: GM, UAW, United Auto Workers, Union, worker, justice, labor, strike
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Sep 3, 2019
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Sep 3, 2019
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This is the full 9-1-2019 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. The last in our three-part series looking at the historic political changes in Chicago this past year. Also on the episode, Chicago teachers move closer to a possible strike. And transit workers, members of Transit Workers Unite, gear up for their own contract fight at the end of the year. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs radio program. News for working people, by...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, schools, CTU, Chicago Teachers Union, socialists,...
